> ## Documentation Index
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# Recurring invoices

> Send the same invoice automatically every week, month, quarter or year.

A recurring invoice is a template that Envoi uses to create and send a new invoice on a fixed schedule, for example a monthly subscription or a fixed agreement.

You find them under **Invoices**, **Recurring**.

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## Create a recurring invoice

<Steps>
  <Step title="Start">
    Choose **New recurring**.
  </Step>

  <Step title="Customer and lines">
    Choose a customer and add the lines, as on a normal invoice.
  </Step>

  <Step title="Schedule">
    * **Frequency**: weekly, monthly, quarterly or yearly.
    * **First invoice date**: cannot be in the past. This also applies when you change the date later.
    * **Days until due**: between 1 and 90 days.
  </Step>

  <Step title="Create">
    Choose **Create recurring invoice**.
  </Step>
</Steps>

You can also create a recurring invoice from an invoice you have already sent: open the invoice and choose **More**, **Make recurring**. The lines and the customer are copied.

## How the invoices are sent

On the date, Envoi creates a new invoice from the template, gives it an invoice number and KID, and sends it by email to the customer. The invoice date is the day it is created, and the due date is counted from it.

If accounting is turned on, the invoice is posted automatically.

<Warning>
  If the customer has no email address, the invoice stays as a draft, and you are notified. Add the address and send it yourself. If the email itself fails, the invoice is still issued and posted, and you are told to send it again. Envoi does not try to send that period again by itself.
</Warning>

There is no end date. A recurring invoice runs until you pause it or delete it.

## Pause, edit and delete

* **Pause** stops the sending. **Resume** continues it. If a date passed while it was paused, it is skipped, and the next invoice is sent on the next date in the schedule.
* **Edit** changes the customer, lines and schedule. The change applies to invoices created afterwards.
* **Delete** removes the template. Invoices that have already been sent stay.

## The detail page

When you open a recurring invoice, you see the next invoice as it will look, the schedule, how many invoices have been created, and a list of them with a link to each.